by Lavinia Plonka | Aug 16, 2014 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
I was pondering the connection of the month of August, keeping august company and the Auguste Clown. Was the clown born in August? Did the Auguste act like a clown version of “respected and impressive?” (Oxford Dictionary). After much research, OK, a half hour on...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jun 13, 2014 | Body Language, The Creative Body
Put your hands on your hips. Now, cross your arms across your chest. Now extend your arms straight out in front of you with your palms up as if pushing. Repeat each of these, and hang out for a while in each position. Does your stance change? Your breathing? Did you...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 17, 2014 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Having a little fun with my head, the Feldenkrais way.
by Lavinia Plonka | May 1, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
I ran away for the first time in Kindergarten. Standing in line after school with all the other kids waiting for the stupid bus, I had the existential realization that life is too short to wait for a bus and decided I needed to explore the world. When the nun turned...
by Lavinia Plonka | May 1, 2014 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
Enjoy this free companion audio lesson! Putting Your Head in Its Place- A free audio lesson from Lavinia Plonka’s book Walking Your Talk. More information on Walking Your Walk can be found here.
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 14, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
I am having lunch with an old friend. Just as he is bemoaning all the goings on of his collapsing marriage, the phone rings. His cell phone that is. “Excuse me,” he purses his lips in that embarrassed “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I left my cellphone on”...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 7, 2014 | Body Language, Humor/CosmiComedy, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body |
I’m told that a treadmill affords people the possibility of movement and exercise that would not be available because of weather or other circumstances. Yet every time I see someone walking or running, getting nowhere, I experience a poignant tug, somewhere between...
by Lavinia Plonka | Apr 1, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
Of course I love my husband Ron. And I know he loves me. But for thirty eight years, we’ve danced around the kitchen trying to reconcile our different relationships to food. As is always the case, it’s more than just about eating. I imagine Freud and Jung sitting in...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 16, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body
“Learn at first concentration without effort: Transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light.” Anonymous (From Meditations on the Tarot – The Magician) Many years ago, while performing in France, I was...
by Lavinia Plonka | Mar 11, 2014 | Body Language, Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method®
As I sit quietly (for a change), I notice my shoulders are not symmetrical. Perhaps it’s not obvious to a casual observer, but suddenly I’m acutely aware that my left shoulder is curled slightly forward, causing my upper torso to rotate slightly to the...
by Lavinia Plonka | Feb 10, 2014 | Humor/CosmiComedy, The Creative Body |
“The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.” (Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 1963) When you walk through the Northwest Airlines...
by Lavinia Plonka | Jan 27, 2014 | Movement as Medicine, The Creative Body, The Feldenkrais Method® |
“It’s not flexible bodies I’m after, it’s flexible brains.” Moshe Feldenkrais Now there’s proof. All those “brain games” that allege to improve your cognitive skills don’t hold a candle to physical activity. Your friends who claim that programs and websites...
